MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis teen is facing multiple charges after she allegedly fled the scene of a fatal car crash.
Mackenzie Lene, 19, is charged with criminal vehicular homicide after prosecutors say a passenger in the vehicle she was driving died after she left the crash scene on foot.
According to charging documents, officers were sent to a single-vehicle accident shortly after midnight near the intersection of Hiawatha Avenue and 41st Street in Minneapolis on March 31. Upon arrival, they found a sedan on fire, one man laying in the road and another man who appeared injured.
The man who was found laying in the street was later pronounced dead.
Officers ran the license plate of the vehicle and found it was registered to Lene, according to the document.
When officials went to Lene's listed address, they obtained surveillance footage from the area that picked up a man and woman discussing how a car had been destroyed by a fire.
Witnesses of the crash told officers they believed a woman had been driving the car, another witness told officers the woman was heard yelling "It's my car, I'm sorry.," according to the charging document.
Police interviewed the other man from the scene at the hospital days later. He told them he, the man who died, another man and Lene had been passing around a bottle of alcohol before going to a party. The man who died allegedly said he didn't want to drive because he had been drinking and Lene ended up driving.
The man allegedly told officers Lene was driving fast and aggressively.
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